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Paul’s Letters
1. There are a total of twenty-one letters or epistles in the
New Testament
2. Fourteen have been traditionally attributed to St. Paul
3. Hebrews does not claim to be a work of Paul
but was attached to the Pauline letters at
the time it was accepted into the canon
4. Among the thirteen letters that claim Paul
as their author, there is debate about his
role in the authorship of six of these
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Paul’s Letters
5. Literary form of Paul’s letters:
6. The letters are arranged in a rough approximation of
longest to shortest – beginning
Opening addresswith Romans and
ending with Philemon
Thanksgiving
7. In Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians,
Body
1 Thessalonians, andofPhilemon
the Letterthere is a consistency
The Church is the Temple of the The presence of the Spirit of God not only
Holy Spirit where all parts of the joins us together with others, but also
Body of Christ are joined together wants us to recognize and preserve our
with Christ as the head duty to care for one another
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Ephesians Philippians
• Paul blesses God (in a hymn) • Joy in the Lord for those who
not only for having blessed live in the Church
humans in every way, and • The need for Christian
especially for having revealed harmony, peace, and humility
to us his eternal plan to unite • It is necessary to imitate
everything in his name under Christ in his sufferings
Heaven and earth • There is no true love without
• It is your responsibility to work the giving of one’s self, and
towards the fulfillment of God’s that truth is the only
plan foundation for real honor
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Colossians 1 Thessalonians
• If you want to see • Remain holy, especially avoiding sexual
God, look at immorality
Jesus because • Christians who have died with Christ will one
Christ is the very day rise and live with him forever
image of God • Remember the end of the world
• It may possibly • Commendation for their great progress in
address some the practice of their faith
false teachings of • Refrain from sexual immorality and promote
the Gnostics love and concern for one another
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2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
• Jesus will not come again • Corrections of false teachers in
until certain signs take place
the church of Ephesus
• Christians need to prepare • The Church is the pillar and
themselves for his return
foundation of truth
• Those who ignore his • Directives on the kind of people
advice to go to work and
who should be chosen to hold key
earn money for their food
positions in the Church
should be avoided, so in
• “True” widows should be cared
shame they will return to the
for by the community
Church
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Themes in Hebrews
1. Christ is the high priest and the model of our faith
2. Christ both is, and offers, the sacrifice on our behalf
3. Christ’s Death on the Cross perfectly achieved,
once and for all, the reconciliation between
humanity and God that the yearly Temple
sacrifices could not
4. Unlike the Jewish high priests, Christ was
“holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from
sinners, higher than the heavens”
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